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Best Theoretical Computer Science journals

125 Scopus-active journals are ranked in Theoretical Computer Science. All are listed below, ranked by CiteScore percentile — 34 of them sit in quartile Q1. Every title links to a full profile with Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, DOAJ and open-access details.

# Journal CiteScore Percentile Quartile WoS ABDC OA
1 ACM Computing Surveys 65.2 99th Q1 SCIE – No
2 Computer Science Review 27.7 98th Q1 SCIE – No
3 Information Systems Frontiers 26.4 98th Q1 SCIE A No
4 IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation 22.1 97th Q1 SCIE – No
5 IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine 17.6 96th Q1 SCIE – No
6 ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology 17.6 95th Q1 SCIE – No
7 Information Sciences 14.6 95th Q1 SCIE – No
8 SIAM Review 14.1 94th Q1 SCIE – No
9 ACM Transactions on Quantum Computing 12.9 93rd Q1 ESCI – No
10 International Journal of Intelligent Systems 12.6 92nd Q1 SCIE – No
11 Frontiers of Computer Science 12.5 92nd Q1 SCIE – No
12 Computer Speech and Language 10.9 91st Q1 SCIE – No
13 Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing 10.3 90th Q1 SCIE – No
14 Mathematics and Computers in Simulation 10.2 90th Q1 SCIE – No
15 Mathematical Programming Computation 10.1 89th Q1 SCIE – No
16 Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering 9.8 88th Q1 SCIE – No
17 Expert Systems 9.6 87th Q1 SCIE – No
18 IEEE Transactions on Computers 9.3 87th Q1 SCIE – No
19 Soft Computing 8.7 86th Q1 SCIE – No
20 International Journal of Fuzzy Systems 8.3 85th Q1 SCIE – No
21 International Journal of Systems Science 8.1 84th Q1 SCIE – No
22 Journal of Computational Science 8 84th Q1 SCIE – No
23 Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing 7.7 83rd Q1 – – No
24 New Generation Computing 7.6 82nd Q1 SCIE – No
25 Computing 7.5 81st Q1 SCIE – No
26 Quantum Machine Intelligence 7.4 81st Q1 ESCI – No
27 Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence 7.2 80th Q1 SCIE – No
28 Journal of Supercomputing 6.9 79th Q1 SCIE – No
29 International Journal of Approximate Reasoning 6.3 78th Q1 SCIE – No
30 Journal of Signal Processing Systems 6.3 78th Q1 SCIE – No
31 Parallel Computing 6 77th Q1 SCIE – No
32 IET Quantum Communication 6 76th Q1 ESCI – Yes
33 International Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications 5.9 75th Q1 ESCI – No
34 Theory and Practice of Logic Programming 5.7 75th Q1 SCIE – No
35 International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications 5.7 74th Q2 SCIE – No
36 Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience 5.7 73rd Q2 SCIE – No
37 Algorithms 5.4 72nd Q2 ESCI – Yes
38 Journal of Scientific Computing 5.4 72nd Q2 SCIE – No
39 Computation 5.2 71st Q2 ESCI – Yes
40 International Journal of General Systems 5.1 70th Q2 SCIE A No
41 IETE Journal of Research 5.1 70th Q2 SCIE – No
42 4OR 4.6 68th Q2 SCIE B No
43 ACM Transactions on Applied Perception 4.4 67th Q2 SCIE – No
44 SIAM Journal on Optimization 4.4 67th Q2 SCIE – No
45 Quantum Information Processing 4.4 66th Q2 SCIE – No
46 Mendel 4.2 65th Q2 – – Yes
47 International Journal of Computational Intelligence and Applications 4.1 64th Q2 ESCI – No
48 Systems and Soft Computing 4.1 64th Q2 ESCI – Yes
49 International Journal of Bio-Inspired Computation 3.8 63rd Q2 SCIE – No
50 RAIRO - Operations Research 3.8 62nd Q2 SCIE – No
51 Foundations and Trends in Theoretical Computer Science 3.5 61st Q2 ESCI – No
52 Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines 3.5 61st Q2 SCIE – No
53 Foundations of Computing and Decision Sciences 3.5 60th Q2 ESCI – Yes
54 Inverse Problems 3.4 59th Q2 SCIE – No
55 Discrete Optimization 3.3 58th Q2 SCIE – No
56 Distributed Computing 3.3 58th Q2 SCIE – No
57 International Journal of Parallel Programming 3.3 57th Q2 SCIE – No
58 Journal of Computer Science and Technology 3.2 56th Q2 SCIE – No
59 Fuzzy Information and Engineering 3.1 55th Q2 ESCI – Yes
60 Journal of Combinatorial Theory. Series B 3.1 55th Q2 SCIE – No
61 Journal of Computer and System Sciences 3.1 54th Q2 SCIE – No
62 Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3.1 53rd Q2 – – No
63 Kybernetika 3 52nd Q2 SCIE – No
64 International Journal of Innovative Computing, Information and Control 2.9 52nd Q2 ESCI – No
65 Journal of Logical and Algebraic Methods in Programming 2.9 51st Q2 SCIE – No
66 Formal Aspects of Computing 2.8 50th Q2 SCIE – No
67 Journal of Combinatorial Theory. Series A 2.8 50th Q2 SCIE – No
68 ACM Transactions on Computational Logic 2.6 47th Q3 SCIE – No
69 Journal of Universal Computer Science 2.6 47th Q3 SCIE – Yes
70 Mathematical Statistics and Learning 2.5 46th Q3 – – Yes
71 Statistics and Computing 2.5 45th Q3 SCIE A No
72 Journal of Soft Computing and Data Mining 2.5 44th Q3 – – No
73 Theoretical Computer Science 2.5 44th Q3 SCIE – No
74 International Journal of Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowledge-Based Systems 2.5 43rd Q3 SCIE – No
75 Information and Computation 2.5 42nd Q3 SCIE B No
76 Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa - Classe di Scienze 2.4 41st Q3 SCIE – No
77 Designs, Codes, and Cryptography 2.4 41st Q3 SCIE – No
78 Finite Fields and their Applications 2.3 40th Q3 SCIE – No
79 Intelligent Data Analysis 2.3 39th Q3 SCIE – No
80 Mathematical Foundations of Computing 2.2 38th Q3 ESCI – No
81 Quantum Information and Computation 2.2 38th Q3 SCIE – No
82 Combinatorics Probability and Computing 2.1 37th Q3 SCIE – No
83 Formal Methods in System Design 2.1 35th Q3 SCIE – No
84 Research in Mathematical Sciences 2 34th Q3 SCIE – No
85 Information Processing Letters 2 33rd Q3 SCIE – No
86 Art, Science, and Engineering of Programming 2 32nd Q3 – – No
87 Logical Methods in Computer Science 2 31st Q3 SCIE – Yes
88 Discrete Mathematics 1.9 30th Q3 SCIE – No
89 Forum of Mathematics, Sigma 1.9 30th Q3 SCIE – Yes
90 Journal of Theoretical and Applied Information Technology 1.8 29th Q3 – – No
91 Discrete and Computational Geometry 1.8 28th Q3 SCIE – No
92 Journal of Logic and Computation 1.8 27th Q3 SCIE – No
93 Natural Computing Series 1.8 27th Q3 – – No
94 Positivity 1.7 25th Q3 SCIE – No
95 Computational Complexity 1.7 24th Q4 SCIE – No
96 IEEE Open Journal on Immersive Displays 1.7 24th Q4 – – No
97 ACM Transactions on Computation Theory 1.6 23rd Q4 ESCI – No
98 Fundamenta Informaticae 1.6 22nd Q4 SCIE – No
99 Sakarya University Journal of Computer and Information Sciences 1.5 21st Q4 – – Yes
100 Theory of Computing 1.5 21st Q4 SCIE – Yes
101 Ars Mathematica Contemporanea 1.5 20th Q4 SCIE – Yes
102 International Journal of Innovative Computing and Applications 1.5 19th Q4 – – No
103 International Journal of Computing Science and Mathematics 1.5 18th Q4 ESCI – No
104 Journal of Multiple-Valued Logic and Soft Computing 1.5 18th Q4 SCIE – No
105 System Research and Information Technologies 1.4 17th Q4 – – Yes
106 Computability 1.3 16th Q4 ESCI – No
107 Electronic Journal of Combinatorics 1.3 15th Q4 SCIE – Yes
108 Journal of Graph Algorithms and Applications 1.3 15th Q4 – – Yes
109 Theory of Computing Systems 1.3 14th Q4 SCIE – No
110 Graphs and Combinatorics 1.2 13th Q4 SCIE – No
111 Journal of Computer and Systems Sciences International 1.2 12th Q4 SCIE – No
112 Mathematics and Computational Sciences 1.2 12th Q4 – – Yes
113 Parallel Processing Letters 1.1 10th Q4 ESCI – No
114 Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science 1 10th Q4 SCIE – Yes
115 Applied Categorical Structures 1 9th Q4 SCIE – No
116 Discrete and Continuous Models and Applied Computational Science 1 8th Q4 – – Yes
117 CLEI Eletronic Journal (CLEIej) 0.9 7th Q4 – – Yes
118 Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications, PerCom 0.9 7th Q4 – – No
119 Acta Cybernetica 0.8 6th Q4 ESCI – No
120 Theory and Applications of Graphs 0.7 4th Q4 – – Yes
121 International Journal of Computational Geometry and Applications 0.6 4th Q4 – – No
122 Prikladnaya Diskretnaya Matematika 0.4 3rd Q4 ESCI – No
123 Foundations and Trends in Programming Languages 0.3 2nd Q4 ESCI – No
124 ITNOW 0.2 1st Q4 – – No
125 Konstruktion 0.1 0th Q4 – – No

Rank and percentile are within the Theoretical Computer Science Scopus subject table (CiteScore 2025, dataset 2026-10-04). A journal can rank differently in its other subject areas — open its profile for the full picture.

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